accessory after the fact
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
One who assists an offender, knowing a crime has been committed, in order to hinder justice.
Harbouring the fugitive made her an accessory after the fact.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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